Poonch Traffic Update: Jams Reported Due Landslides on Jammu National Highway

Traffic between Poonch and Jammu via Surankote has come to a standstill on Friday, February 28, due to a series of landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on the Poonch-Jammu National Highway. A rockfall on the route claimed the life of a driver yesterday, prompting authorities to issue a travel advisory.

Poonch, J&K: Traffic between Poonch and Jammu via Surankote has been halted following landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on the Poonch-Jammu National Highway. Authorities issued a travel advisory after a rockfall on the route killed a driver yesterday pic.twitter.com/TeTzDO10qA

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Meanwhile, two people also killed after their vehicle in which they where travelling hit by a massive boulder in Surankote area of Poonch district due to heavy rains that triggered landslides and shooting stones, reported Hindustan Times. The police told HT that the SUV hit by a boulder in which both the men inside the SUV were killed. 

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Meanwhile, seven people were injured, while others were suspected to be missing, after a car veered off the road and plunged into the Poonch River in Jammu Kashmir's Poonch district. The incident took place on Thursday night.